An ordinary evening on Ambergris Caye turned into a harrowing ordeal when a man and a woman set off on a jet ski from Secret Beach. A large wave capsized the jet ski, leaving them stranded in open waters as night fell. The situation quickly
The mass migration of Central American nationals northward over the past several years has increased and taken on new, innovative methods. We’ve heard of the practice that migrants purchase two-way plane tickets to Belize, but upon arrival, they simply move to other countries in their
Two equally tough issues to deal with are those of human trafficking and sex trafficking, and the U.S. has also been attempting to manage those problems with the help of countries in the region where these offences are prevalent. Jacobstein agreed that these are areas
We also asked Jacobstein to weigh in on the Belize-Guatemala dispute. The differendum is two centuries old, and all other attempts, including the Confidence-Building Measures in the early 2000’s amounted to naught in solving our dispute. The U.S. has maintained diplomatic ties with both our
Loans Officer Mirna Rivera was today fined five thousand dollars for causing the death of eighty-seven-year-old Joseph Bevans Senior. Rivera was ordered to pay the deceased's estate, or in this case, Bevans' stepson, John Flowers. The usual fine was waived. Rivera, who was charged with
Earlier we heard from the U.S. State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Eric Jacobstein. While we engaged with him today on regional topics, we discussed the matter of Haitians who use Belize and Central America to get to the United States. He
The call by other countries to lift the blockade on the Cuban Government also dates back a few decades. More recently, that call has gotten more pronounced, but while the U.S. has not lifted the ban, it has taken measures to be more accommodating in
Belize’s ninety-day State of Emergency matches a previous S.O.E. implemented under a previous government, but the measure has been received with a degree of criticism. Some have likened the action to El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, who in 2023 imposed a new siege on his country’s
The nation’s murder count for 2024 as of June stands at fifty-seven murders, according to statistics from the Belize Crime Observatory. That is an average of ten murders a month. Of the murder victims, fifty were males and seven were females. Data also shows that
On Wednesday, RET International completed training with persons in the transportation industry on human trafficking. It was a programme that the University of Belize has signed on to as one of its e-courses. A significant number of the participants hailed from Belize City, the biggest
